Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social values

2016-07-13 Thread Ben Finney
On 03-Jul-2016, Sven@GMX wrote: > I had my Fairphone 1 ordered and shipped to Germany and then sent to > Australia back in 2014. But for now I am back in Germany. So, let's > talk about your idea, Ben. So far, no-one else has said they want to get in on an order of Fairphone 2 and share delivery c

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-10 Thread Michael Verrenkamp
So apparently you can run Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 2. That's a really nice development. https://twitter.com/Fairphone/status/751428733148561408 Michael On 04/07/16 06:13, Sven@GMX wrote: I used to to have the Fairphone 1 working, first in the Optus network and then Vodafone back in 2014. Bot

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 01:32:57 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > The problem is not people moving on quickly but hardware designers moving > > on. > > Yes it is the people those developers/testers with the S3 have > probably upgraded to newer phones and so most have abandoned the S3 in > terms of ge

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Olivier Mehani
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 01:54:58AM +1000, Andrew Pam wrote: > Yes, and has done for a long time. The only issue is that sometimes the > UI restarts immediately after unlocking the phone and I have to unlock a > second time. Otherwise everything works perfectly. I have a similar issue due to the

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Olivier Mehani
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:04:56AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> The Google account is simply a means to get the apps I want from > >> the Play store and not much else. > > You can also flash your phone with a stock CyanogenMod ROM, with > > neither Google Apps nor Cyanogen (?) Apps, and be F

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 5/07/2016 1:54 AM, Andrew Pam wrote: > On 05/07/16 01:18, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> And does everything work perfectly on CM 11 ? > > Yes, and has done for a long time. The only issue is that sometimes the > UI restarts immediately after unlocking the phone and I have to unlock a > second tim

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew Pam
On 05/07/16 01:18, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > And does everything work perfectly on CM 11 ? Yes, and has done for a long time. The only issue is that sometimes the UI restarts immediately after unlocking the phone and I have to unlock a second time. Otherwise everything works perfectly. Cheers,

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 5/07/2016 1:27 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 12:04:56 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting >> updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move >> on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 12:04:56 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting > updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move > on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to get a bit more life. The problem is not people mo

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 5/07/2016 12:24 AM, Andrew Pam wrote: > On 05/07/16 00:04, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting >> updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move >> on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to get a bit more

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew Pam
On 05/07/16 00:04, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting > updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move > on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to get a bit more life. I'm still using my S3 with CM 11 and get

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/07/2016 6:40 PM, Olivier Mehani wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 06:17:58PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> The Google >> account is simply a means to get the apps I want from the Play store and >> not much else. > > You can also flash your phone with a stock CyanogenMod ROM, with neither

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Olivier Mehani
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 06:17:58PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > The Google > account is simply a means to get the apps I want from the Play store and > not much else. You can also flash your phone with a stock CyanogenMod ROM, with neither Google Apps nor Cyanogen (?) Apps, and be Free(tm). Ad

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 4/07/2016 6:13 AM, Sven@GMX wrote: > I used to to have the Fairphone 1 working, first in the Optus network and > then Vodafone back in 2014. Both working fine with the FP. Yes, but the FF2 only has these LTE radios Bands 3 (1800 MHz), 7 (2600 MHz), 20 (800 MHz) Compare that to th

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social values

2016-07-03 Thread Sven@GMX
I had my Fairphone 1 ordered and shipped to Germany and then sent to Australia back in 2014. But for now I am back in Germany. So, let's talk about your idea, Ben. Cheers, -- Sven sven_andri...@gmx.net > On 1 Jul 2016, at 12:40 AM, Ben Finney > wrote: > > Howdy all, > > Many of our recent m

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-03 Thread Sven@GMX
I used to to have the Fairphone 1 working, first in the Optus network and then Vodafone back in 2014. Both working fine with the FP. -- Sven > On 2 Jul 2016, at 11:19 AM, FVZ wrote: > > Fairphone is a work in progress from what I can see. The first revision was > mostly focusing on just maki

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-02 Thread FVZ
Fairphone is a work in progress from what I can see. The first revision was mostly focusing on just making a phone that was built from conflicts-free materials, and much easier to self repair. There has been a great deal of moral support from them for free software but it hasn't been a major fo